Cardinal Cupich's astoundingly terrible response to the cover up of sexual abuse of minors

"The Pope knows we have a bigger agenda. He's got to get on with other things, of talking about the environment and protecting migrants and carrying on the work of the church. We're not going to go down a rabbit hole on this." —Cardinal Cupich https://t.co/ByEOh5Gkc8

— C. C. Pecknold (@ccpecknold) August 28, 2018

Something about these guys hating rabbits.

Cupich on Francis critics: “Quite frankly, they also don’t like him because he’s a Latino.” pic.twitter.com/Ras6MH5uUd

— Matthew Schmitz (@matthewschmitz) August 28, 2018

Apparently a bit of confusion here.... both of Pope Francis' parents are Italian.  He is a white European.

I mean, right now Abp. Gomez is refused a red hat precisely because he tried to reprimand Mahoney for his role in the abuse crisis, and Pope Francis re-enabled predatory churchmen to find political allies. Considering Pope Francis is white, who's the racist?

— Badger Malager (@badgercatholic) August 28, 2018

I really did not expect such a spectacular flop from Cdl Cupich. It's an interview so it's not like reading prepared remarks, but it's like he gets panicked and realizes he's not allowed to say the rational thing which I think for him should have been "We take any charges of sexual abuse extremely seriously.   I trust Pope Francis as he continues to improve the Church's accountability.  As bishops we move forward together to improve the Dallas Charter.  Etc, etc."

These are troubling times.  Take it all with a grain of salt and a mountain of prayer.